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Comment on “What Happens if We Screw Up Again?” by Brexit devaluation is monetary offset in action | Historinhas https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/what-happens-if-we-screw-up-again/#comment-7708
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:53:04 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=3539#comment-7708[…] the same time as the Sadowski re-post but on a different subject, Britmouse over at uneconomical also had an excellent post making a related […]
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Comment on “What Happens if We Screw Up Again?” by James Alexander https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/what-happens-if-we-screw-up-again/#comment-7699
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:29:37 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=3539#comment-7699Just retweeted a link to your piece. Helpful in thinking about the supposed Brexit productivity shock. Devaluation completely offsets it.
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Comment on Where are the “devaluationists”? by James Alexander https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/where-are-the-devaluationists/#comment-7678
Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:14:29 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4495#comment-7678Good post. Helped a lot on Brexit Friday.
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Comment on Where are the “devaluationists”? by James Alexander https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/where-are-the-devaluationists/#comment-7545
Wed, 04 May 2016 10:29:50 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4495#comment-7545You are still too kind to Mervyn King, the new board member and then ex-board member of Aston Vila.
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Comment on Where are the “devaluationists”? by James Alexander https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/where-are-the-devaluationists/#comment-7303
Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:58:01 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4495#comment-7303Central planning works so well. Just fit the right people to the right jobs. Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Err …
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Comment on Where are the “devaluationists”? by mrkemail2 https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/where-are-the-devaluationists/#comment-7300
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 19:04:16 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4495#comment-7300Not really. Why is foreign demand so much better than domestic demand. You are sending real stuff abroad. And of course the world as a whole is a closed system. The problem with standard models:

Fiscal policy should be used. Start off by offering a living wage job fitted to the person to anyone who wants one.

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Comment on Where are the “devaluationists”? by nottrampis https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/where-are-the-devaluationists/#comment-7299
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:44:10 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4495#comment-7299to be technical only governments can devalue, they have little impact on floating exchange rates. Many central bank governors are exasperated because the FX markets do not act rationally?

Central banks can cut or raise interest rates. no-e can raise or cut the FX rate when it is floating.

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Comment on UK GDP Data Sources by Martin https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/uk-gdp-data-sources/#comment-7217
Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:21:06 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?page_id=489#comment-7217In the YBHA file, what is the difference between the first set of data going from 1948 to 2014 (yearly) and the rest going from 1955 to 2015 Q3 quarterly?
I’m searching for the quarterly historical data of the UK GDP (seasonally adjusted). Any advice?
Thanks a lot!
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Comment on Youth unemployment, crisis over? by James Alexander https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/youth-unemployment-crisis-over/#comment-7077
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:34:06 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4469#comment-70772008 redux. Monetary policy is tightening and the MPC doesn’t even realise. Except maybe Haldane, for the wrong reasons, bless him. Poor old George Osborne he needs to send the Treasury reps on the MPC into action.
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Comment on Youth unemployment, crisis over? by Britmouse https://uneconomical.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/youth-unemployment-crisis-over/#comment-7076
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:19:20 +0000http://uneconomical.wordpress.com/?p=4469#comment-7076James, a role reversal: the comments are more gloomy than the posts :)